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Trinidad Moruga Scorpion Pepper Is the World’s Hottest
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 12:22 pm
by TxD
For all you "Pepper Heads".
From the article:
"The Habanero pepper has a maximum hotness of 350,000 Scoville Heat Units. That's nothing—like eating an Altoid—compared to the mouth-searing Trinidad Moruga Scorpion. It tops out at over two million SHU and has just been named the world's hottest pepper."
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Re: Trinidad Moruga Scorpion Pepper Is the World’s Hottest
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 12:38 pm
by Carry-a-Kimber
Read about this pepper the other day. Can't wait to try one, 1.2M Scovilles is pretty painnful though. We always do hot peppers and sauces at work, mostly Ghost Chilis and their ilk. The other day some chucklehead brough 2M Scoville extract..... it was warm.
Re: Trinidad Moruga Scorpion Pepper Is the World’s Hottest
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 12:49 pm
by OldCannon
To heck with eating it, I want that stuff in a defensive spray can!
Re: Trinidad Moruga Scorpion Pepper Is the World’s Hottest
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 1:40 pm
by steve817
OldCannon wrote:To heck with eating it, I want that stuff in a defensive spray can!
When I glanced at the topic, that is what I thought it was about at first.
Re: Trinidad Moruga Scorpion Pepper Is the World’s Hottest
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 10:50 pm
by mot7981
Not the kind of "heater" we usually discuss but very hot indeed.
Re: Trinidad Moruga Scorpion Pepper Is the World’s Hottest
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 10:52 pm
by A-R
I'd just as soon eat gunpowder
Re: Trinidad Moruga Scorpion Pepper Is the World’s Hottest
Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2012 3:02 am
by The Mad Moderate
steve817 wrote:OldCannon wrote:To heck with eating it, I want that stuff in a defensive spray can!
When I glanced at the topic, that is what I thought it was about at first.
I thought the same exact thing that spray would stop godzilla in his tracks.
Re: Trinidad Moruga Scorpion Pepper Is the World’s Hottest
Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2012 10:18 am
by RPB
These peppers are so hot that the team went through multiple sets of gloves during the harvest because the Scorpion's capsaicin, "kept penetrating the latex and soaking into the skin on our hands. That has never happened to me before," said senior research specialist Danise Coon.
Reminds me of a girl I should have married who wore gloves while making KimChi and telling me if she didn't, and made it often enough, her skin would fall off
Now I'll have to drive to San Antonio soon ... hungry for Korean Food (and the Killeen Restaurants are "ok" but the Austin Korean restaurants are like calling Taco Bell "real homemade Mexican" food.
I mean if you can't get barley tea in a Korean Restaurant ... then it isn't a Korean Restaurant, it's American food.
(Ok, I haven't tried every Austin one, but all I tried are lame ... one in San Antonio brought a fan to my table without being asked to ... for the excessive sweating which was going on)